Chuck Online: ‘CHUCK’ SEASON 3 PREMIERE: JANUARY 10, 2010!

20 11 2009

NBC’s action-comedy series Chuck returns to the NBC lineup on Sunday, January 10 with all-new missions and two action-packed, back-to-back original episodes in its season premiere (9-11 p.m. ET) before the series — starring Zachary Levi in the title role — moves to its regular day and time (Mondays 8-9 p.m. ET) beginning January 11.

That’s a total of 3 Chuck episodes in 2 days – 2 back-to-back episodes on Sunday 10th Jan and another episode on Monday 11th Jan!

via Chuck Online: ‘CHUCK’ SEASON 3 PREMIERE: JANUARY 10, 2010!.





Chumby One, world’s best connected alarm clock and a lot more | DVICE

19 11 2009




‘Acoustic cannon’ used to fend off Somali pirates | DVICE

19 11 2009




Asbury College to become Asbury University this spring – Latest News – Kentucky.com

18 11 2009

Asbury College - Hager Administration Building

Asbury College to become Asbury University this spring – Latest News – Kentucky.com.

Asbury College moves toward University Status – Asbury.edu





Breaking News: Obama’s Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

17 11 2009




AP Poll: Americans fret over health overhaul costs – Yahoo! News

16 11 2009

From Article By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and TREVOR TOMPSON, Associated Press Writers

Americans are worried about hidden costs in the fine print of health care overhaul legislation, an Associated Press poll says. That’s creating new challenges for President Barack Obama as he tries to close the deal with a handful of Democratic doubters in the Senate.

Although Americans share a conviction that major health care changes are needed, Democratic bills that extend coverage to the uninsured and try to hold down medical costs get no better than a lukewarm reception.

AP Poll: Americans fret over health overhaul costs – Yahoo! News.

 

Link to PDF of the Poll results





Netflix on the Neuros LINK

16 11 2009

RT @neurostech: help get Netflix on the LINK sign the “Netflix “Watch Now” feature for Linux” petition! http://petol.org/Linflix #petol

 

The Neuros LINK – A Better Way to Connect the Internet to your TV | Neuros Technology.





Firefox most vulnerable browser, Safari close second

16 11 2009

Firefox most vulnerable browser, Safari close second.

Among Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox had the largest percentage of Web vulnerabilities, followed by Apple Safari, whose browser showed a vast increase in exploits, due to vulnerabilities reported in the Safari iPhone browser:

 

 





Say no to the Comcast and NBC merger!

13 11 2009

RT @neurostech: RT @freepress: RT @comdown: Say no to the Comcast and NBC merger! http://bit.ly/1WciqP #NoMerger





Remote/ Mouse/ Keyboard App for iPhone and iPod Touch

13 11 2009

I’m trying to find the best app(s) for iPhone and iPod Touch to control my Mac. Would like to be able to control mouse, type using keyboard, and bonus would be to use as a remote for certain apps, either pre-built or build-your-own.

Does anyone out there have any thoughts, opinions or suggestions on what to check out?





Swine flu has sickened 22 million Americans

13 11 2009

So has anyone actually had the seasonal flu this year? With these numbers reported by USA Today it would seem nearly everyone would be sick if we had an average seasonal flu season.

RT @NAICU: Swine flu has killed 540 kids, sickened 22 million Americans (USA Today) http://bit.ly/3Ixnb9





No Apologies : Current Health Care Reform Bill UnConstitutional

12 11 2009




Boxee Blog » a Boxee Box is coming!

12 11 2009




Report: Chrome for Mac Beta may appear in ‘early December’

12 11 2009

Report: Chrome for Mac Beta may appear in ‘early December’

More than a year after Google released its Web browser for Windows, a Mac version is still under development. But a beta version may see the light of day as early as next month.





Eneloop Stick Booster supplies emergency power to your portable devices

12 11 2009

Eneloop Stick Booster supplies emergency power to your portable devices

Any time a company both enables our gadget addiction and discourages wanton battery consumption we have to consider it a good thing — and, indeed, Sanyo’s wicked-rechargeable Eneloop batteries already have quite a few fans here at Engadget HQ. But what’s a busy gadget hound to do on the go, you ask? Try this one on for size: the Eneloop Stick Booster ships with two AAs and can be used to charge them, via any USB source. From that point the device can be used to power your PMP for roughly 90 minutes. How great is that? To be released in Japan on December 1 for an unspecified price, and worldwide whenever the company sees fit. PR after the break.

Gallery: Eneloop Stick Booster

[Via Akihabara]

Continue reading Eneloop Stick Booster supplies emergency power to your portable devices

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Eneloop Stick Booster supplies emergency power to your portable devices originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:23:00 EST. Please see our term…





Apple lifts veil on App Store approval status

12 11 2009

Thanks, Apple!!

Apple lifts veil on App Store approval status

Apple has added a feature to its Dev Center website allowing developers to view the approval status of submitted apps.appleinsider.rss&itemLink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.appleinsider.com%2Farticles%2F09%2F11%2F11%2Fapple_lifts_veil_on_app_store_approval_status.html&itemDate=2009-11-11%2019%3A40%3A00&itemTitle=Apple%20lifts%20veil%20on%20App%20Store%20approval%20status





HP to buy 3Com in networking, data center bid

12 11 2009

HP to buy 3Com in networking, data center bid

Hewlett-Packard has agreed to buy 3Com for about $2.7 billion.





Facebook App developer rejects App Store, irony ensues

12 11 2009

So I want to know why is it so hard for real apps to get their apps updated and through to the App Store and yet all these crap apps get in? i.e. “Fart Machines” and “Sexy Girls”.  The App Store is flooded with these pointless and completely useless apps.

Apple, WHY?!?! Just make it open.

Facebook App developer rejects App Store, irony ensues.





Microsoft probing Windows 7 zero-day hole | Security – CNET News

12 11 2009

This is why I am not a fan of IE….

Microsoft probing Windows 7 zero-day hole | Security – CNET News.

http://pentestit.com/2009/11/12/day-windows-7-server-2008r2-remote-kernel-crash-exploit-poc/





The Obama Apocalypse (unknown source)

11 11 2009

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And it came to pass in the Age of Insanity that the people of the land
called America, having lost their morals, their initiative, and their
will to defend their liberties, chose as their Supreme Leader that
person known as ‘The One.’
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He emerged from the vapors with a message that had no meaning; but He
hypnotized the people telling them, “I am sent to save you. My lack
of experience, my questionable ethics, my monstrous ego, and my
association with evil doers are of no consequence. I shall save you
with hope and Change. Go, therefore, and proclaim throughout the
land that he who proceeded me is evil, that he has defiled the nation,
and that all he has built must be destroyed.” And the people rejoiced,
for even though they knew not what ‘The One’ would do, he had promised
that it was good; and they believed. And ‘The One’ said, ” We live in
the greatest country in the world. Help me change everything about it!”
And the people said, “Hallelujah! Change is good!”
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Then He said, “We are going to tax the rich fat-cats.” And the
people said “Sock it to them!” “And redistribute their wealth.” And
the people said, “Show us the money!” And then he said,
“redistribution of wealth is good for everybody.”
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And Joe the plumber asked, “Are you kidding me? You’re going to
steal my money and give it to the deadbeats??” And ‘The One’
ridiculed and taunted him, and Joe’s personal records were hacked and publicized.
One lone reporter asked, “Isn’t that Marxist policy?” And she was
banished from the kingdom!
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Then a citizen asked, “With no foreign relations experience and
having zero military experience or knowledge, how will he deal with
radical terrorists?” And ‘The One’ said, “Simple. I shall sit with
them and talk with them and show them how nice we really are; and they
will forget that they ever wanted to kill us all!” And the people
said, “Hallelujah!! We are safe at last, and we can beat our weapons
into free cars for the people!”
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Then ‘The One’ said, “I shall give 95% of you lower taxes.” And one,
lone voice said, “But 44% of us don’t pay ANY taxes. So ‘The One’
said, “Then I shall give you some of the taxes the fat-cats pay!”
And the people said, “Hallelujah! Show us the money!”
Then ‘The One’ said, “I shall tax your Capital Gains when you sell
your homes!” And the people yawned and the slumping housing market
collapsed. And He said, “I shall mandate employer-funded health care
for every worker and raise the minimum wage. And I shall give every
person unlimited healthcare and medicine and transportation to the
clinics.” And the people said, “Give me some of that!”
Then he said, “I shall penalize employers who ship jobs overseas.”
And the people said, “Where’s my rebate check?”
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Then ‘The One’ said, “I shall bankrupt the coal industry and
electricity rates will skyrocket!” And the people said, “Coal is
dirty, coal is evil, no more coal! But we don’t care for that part
about higher electric rates.” So ‘The One’ said, “Not to worry. If
your rebate isn’t enough to cover your expenses, we shall bail you out
Just sign up with the ACORN and your troubles are over!”
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Then He said, “Illegal immigrants feel scorned and slighted. Let’s
grant them amnesty, Social Security, free education, free lunches,
free medical care, bi-lingual signs and guaranteed housing…” And
the people said, “Hallelujah!” and they made him king!
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And so it came to pass that employers, facing spiraling costs and
ever-higher taxes, raised their prices and laid off workers. Others
simply gave up and went out of business and the economy sank like unto
a rock dropped from a cliff.
The banking industry was destroyed. Manufacturing slowed to a
crawl. And more of the people were without a means of support.
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Then ‘The One’ said, “I am ‘the One’- The Messiah – and I’m here
to save you! We shall just print more money so everyone will have
enough!” But our foreign trading partners said unto Him. “Wait a
minute. Your dollar is not worth a pile of camel dung! You will have
to pay more…” And ‘The One’ said, “Wait a minute. That isn’t
fair!!” And the world said, “Neither are these other idiotic
programs you have embraced. Lo, you have become a Socialist state and
a second-rate power. Now you shall play by our rules!”
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And the people cried out, “Alas, alas!! What have we done?” But yea
verily, it was too late. The people set upon ‘The One’ and spat upon
him and stoned him, and his name was dung. And the once mighty nation
was no more; and the once proud people were without sustenance or
shelter or hope. And the Change ‘The One’ had given them was as like
unto a poison that had destroyed them and like a whirlwind that
consumed all that they had built.

And the people beat their chests in despair and cried out in anguish,
“give us back our nation and our pride and our hope!!” But it was too
late, and their homeland was no more.

You may think this a fairy tale, but it’s not.
It’s happening RIGHT NOW





So its about time to start posting again

2 11 2009

I’ve been thinking I need to start posting again. I have a plethera of new Mac things to talk about and new apps I have fallen in love with and some I have lost interest in. Hopefully in the near future I can update my “Best of Mac Software” posting series. I also have several Applescripts I have written which I have meant to make public.

Stay tuned …





Test post from iPod Touch

2 11 2009

This is a test post from the WordPress v2 app on iPod Touch





007: Quantum of Solace – Trailer

22 07 2008




MAKE: Blog: Fart power

22 07 2008

Enough said.

MAKE: Blog: Fart power





Best of FREE Mac Software: System Settings

23 07 2007

Deeper is a personalization utility that allows you to enable and disable the hidden functions of Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, Safari, Login window and many Apple’s applications…

UNO derives from the Latin word for one and stands for “as one”.
*UNO is the root of Unity.
*UNO is a theme that brings the sunken unified toolbar/titlebar look&feel to every single window on your system (cocoa or carbon, metal or aqua and already unified windows as well).
*On an higher level, UNO’s main goal is to enhance aqua interface consistence, by making all elements look&feel “as one”.
*UNO is aimed to those who want a clean and un-osbstructive interface while keeping the best of Aqua.
*The unity level proposed by UNO does not compromises overall GUI contrast: UNO and UNO shade can be mixed up in order to achieve that usability goal.
*UNO also fixes some Blue/Graphite appearance inconsistencies.

iStumbler is the leading wireless discovery tool for Mac OS X, providing plugins for finding AirPort networks, Bluetooth devices and Bonjour services with your Mac.

The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for “BOMArchiveHelper.app”, the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder. It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems. I personally find it useful for opening Japanese archives, but it should handle many other languages just as well.
*Supported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, Rar, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other more or less obscure formats. Support for so many formats is achieved by using the libxad unarchiving library.

STUFFIT EXPANDER expands all your compressed and encoded files!
** Access any file, download, or attachment!
** Scan your compressed or encoded files for viruses!
** NEW! StuffIt now allows you to open Zip archives encrypted using the 256bit AES method!

UnPlugged is an application to notify when the power cord of the Mac is unplugged or plugged in. Notifications are done using Growl, or with a Alertwindow, when Growl is not installed.

LiteIcon is an application to change System icons. It also includes a function to restore icons.

Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications.
*Why use Growl?
**Control
***Growl offers you complete control over which notifications are shown and how they are displayed. You will not receive any notifications that you do not want, because you can easily turn notifications (specific ones or all of them) off.
**Consistency
***Growl centralizes all your notification preferences into its preference pane – you can control them all from one place, and you know exactly how they are going to behave.
**Ease of use
***When you start up a Growl-enabled application, it will “just work.” Your apps can start displaying notifications right away.
**Powerful
***Growl is very flexible. Notifications can be emailed to you or spoken instead of displayed on the screen.

coconutBattery isn’t just a tool which shows you only the current charge of your battery – it also shows you the current maximum capacity of it in relation to the original capacity your battery had as it left the factory.
*You also get information about the battery-loadcycles (how often did you fully load your battery), the current charger (coconutBattery even warns you if you plugged in a wrong charger for your Notebook) and last but not least information about the age of your Mac.

FanControl : Do you think your MacBook (Pro) is running too hot? Give Fan Control a try then.
*Some MacBook (Pro) are just too hot for daylong use. Fan Control adjusts the minimum fan speed depending on the current CPU temperature. For safety, it leaves the original automatic fan speed control intact.

OnyX is a multifunction utility (maintenance, optimization, and personalization).
It allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, Safari, Login window and of some of Apple’s own applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome, to see the detailed info of your configuration, to preview various logs and CrashReporter-reports, to check the Preferences files and more.

AppFresh helps you to keep all applications (third-party and Apple), widgets, preference panes and application plugins on your Mac up to date, from one place. It works by checking the excellent iusethis.com for new versions and lets you download and install available updates easily.